Holdback-fastening



(No Model.)

v O. POLSOM.

HGLDBAGK FASTENING.

' No. 411,716.- Patented Sept. 24, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE;

CHARLES FOLSOM, OF BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.

HOLDBACK-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 41 1,? 16, dated September 24, 1889.

Application filed June 6, 1889. fSerial No. 313,388. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES FoLsoM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bellefontaine, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Iiloldback-Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a device for attachment to vehicle-shafts to form an adj u stable holdbackfastening.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device attached to the bottom of a shaft; Fig. 2, a modification of'the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a holdback-fastening permanently secured on the shaft, out of View when in use, and one that will allow of fastening different lengths of holdbacks to without unbuckling or altering the length of the holdback, which can be left permanently attached to the harness. It also does away with the unsightly and troublesome wrapping of the holdback around the shaft, as is necessary when the holdbacks are left upon the harness as heretofore.

My device, as shown in Fig. 1, consists of acast malleable plateabout an inch and a half wide and a foot in length, though the size may be altered. The part A of my plate is thinner than the part B, there being a shoulder at their junction. underneath the inner side of the shaft, the part B projecting inward from the shaft. The plate is secured to the shaft by the screws H. In the part B, projecting inward from the shaft, are the holes 0, in which the snap I of the holdback K clasps.

In practice the holdback is secured permanently to the harness and has a snap on the end. \Vhcn the horse is put in the shafts, the

snaps are fastened in any of the holes 0 in the plate to suit the length of the strap and The thinner part is intended to fit size of the horse. Thus, if the horse should be a small one, the front hole would probably be the proper one, and for larger and longer horses the holes farther back, according to the size of the horse, would be the proper ones. It will thus be seen that when the holdbacks are once put on the harness they need not be altered for different-sized horses.

The holdhack does not have to be wrapped around the shaft, and consequently shorter holdbacks will answer, and the Wrapping of patent leather usual on shafts where theholdback wraps around is also dispensed with. My plate, being thin and not extending to the outer edge of the shaft, is out of sight.

In Fig. 2 I show my device made by lapping a strip of sheet metal on itself and punching holes C in it Where doubled. In the back of the doubledpiece I insert a Wire F, bent out at points G, and to these bent parts of the wire G the snaps are attached. The sheet metal is secured to the shaft by screws in same manner as the malleable plate.

hat I claini is 1. The co1nbination,with avehicle-shaft, of the single plate attached to the under side and projecting inward on the same plane with the shaft, the projecting part having the holes O therein for the reception of the snaps on the holdbaclcstrap, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a buggy-shaft, of the sheetn1etal pieceE, having holes 0 therein, and the wire F, secured between the pieces of sheet metal and bent at G to form a loop to receive the holdback-snap, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES FOLSOM. W itnesses:

FLORINE FoLsoM, LUTETIA DEGANN. 

